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Welcome to legit street cars and welcome to another rolls-royce diy video. Today, i'm going to show you guys how to rebuild both of your brake master cylinders and how to remove the seats out of your 1961 silver cloud. 2 rolls royce because, as one of the most common cars on the road today, this is something that all of you absolutely need to know how to do now. I know most of you daily drive your own 62 year old rolls royce, so don't even bother watching other highly detailed diy videos on rare exotic cars like a honda, civic, a ford f-150 or a toyota camry cars that you would never realistically consider buying.

So sit back, relax warm yourself up some earl shot, earl, grey tea and some crumpets and enjoy the show. Cheerio here is the issue with the brakes. So we have a massive brake fluid leak from one of the two master cylinders. So right now i want to determine for sure which one it's coming from.

It looks like the bottom one, but it could simply be the upper master cylinder. That's leaking on this. So we're going to clean this up, pump up the brakes and see what we can see a little brake cleaner and look at that. It's fixed done all right.

So i have my friend peter in the car: go ahead peter whenever you're ready, let's pump some brakes. Let me show you guys everything that's going on here. We have linkage. There goes all the way over here over here over there luggage all the way up there.

It's moving this little servo thing on the transmission and then finally leading over here. This is nuts, and i forgot - i could totally do this myself down here, so we can pump up both of these and now this is clean. We can find the leak, so we know for sure which one of these master cylinders is leaking. It might help if we pull these boots back too all right.

So let's remove this boot here. Okay, i'd say: that's a good sign, but it can still just be the fluid from the upper master cylinder. But, oh you can see. There's, oh whatever that is, is loose, there's something right there.

It's just dangling around okay, so much easier way of figuring. This out is simply by removing the feed hose from each brakemaster cylinder and seeing which reservoir goes bone dry. So i know up top which one leaks out within a couple days: that's our culprit! So i'm going to start with this bottom hose and if that empties out the reservoir completely, that i know is already low from leaking brake fluid. Then we know it's this bottom.

One hose clamp, looks pretty new, actually we're getting anything. This thing is pretty low to begin with, this might be it. So, of course, this rolls royce is not going to make life easy for us. It is the upper master cylinder, that's leaking, so looks like we have to remove the lower one along with it and a lot of linkage.

So, let's get to it all right, so i got this bottom linkage out we're going to try and slide these things out through the bottom, there's that okay, so i figured it out the c-clip right here. It actually holds this rod in the master cylinder. I can see the upper one it's intact, so we'll see if we get this back on, it's definitely the upper master cylinder, that's leaking. This thing is leaking live on us right now, just dripping out.
So that's a good thing because i had already ordered the rebuild kit for the upper master cylinder many many months ago when i bought this car in south carolina. I remember we were thinking it was the upper one, we're 100 sure, and i just ordered it um and that's the case, and this is it. This is the entire rebuild kit you're looking at right now, 125 dollars. Can you believe that, just for a few seals all right with that everything is disconnected, but i think we're gon na need to spread these plates out a little bit more doesn't seem to be enough room to get this guy through all right.

Yes, i did it all right cool. I was able to leave those plates alone, and here she is okay. So this is what they give you in the rebuild kit and i'm not going to lie. I'm a little worried that i'm going to need a little bit more than that, but uh we're going to find out right now.

So it looks like the only way really to access. The guts of this is to remove this gigantic cap, and it does look like there is an aluminum washer in here that hopefully i can reuse i'm not going to mess with these, because i don't have new washers, but it wasn't leaking from here. It was leaking from here and you can see the fluid here has gathered at the bottom and it was pretty obvious when we were pumping it up in the car that it was leaking out from here. So uh anyway.

Wish me luck here we go well. This is a little embarrassing. I don't have the proper size wrench to fit over this. I think it's like a 38 or a 40 millimeter, so i will be using some locking pliers and i'm using a vise a 100 year old vise built in chicago.

That's not even bolted down to the table yet because i was going to restore it, but yeah we're working uh with whatever we have, and hopefully this is not really tight, so the whole device over here, okay seriously, wow, i could have done that by hand. Are you wow that is not tight at all sweet? That's great! Oh man. Did we just get lucky, you guys know i never get lucky with stuff that is corroded. It's always stuck.

I always have to use heat a drill, violence to get it to come apart, and this just came apart so i'll take it all right. So, let's see what we have inside of a 60-something year: old, rolls-royce master, cylinder, okay, yep, there's fluid all right. We have a spring and a plastic sleeve and fluid lots and lots of fluid it's making. My vice look pretty good, though all right, we'll clean this stuff up a little bit all right, get this guy out of our 100 year old device and see what we're working with here.

You've seen it here on legit street cars. First, remember this moment in your life: remember where you are right now. This is the inside of a rolls, royce master cylinder kind of boring all right. So i'm assuming we need to push this part in and that there's a seal in here that's leaking the fluid out.
So when you hit the brake pedal, this gets pushed in and sends the fluid through your brake line to the wheel cylinders. So we should be able to okay. We can't do it by hand there. We go ah perfect excellent.

This has got to be it. This has got to be the entire problem. Right here is this seal isn't sealing properly, so the fluid is going right, past it and exiting the vehicle. So let's go see.

If we have these, hopefully we do and they don't seem to be in the worst condition. I was expecting these to be rock hard, but but they're not now i will say the cylinder in which that piston rides it's a little scuffed up, it's not as smooth as i'd imagined, so i'll, try and clean this up a little bit inside. Hopefully, that's not the issue. In that case, we might need a whole new master cylinder.

Well, i'm hoping this is some kind of updated seal. It's the only one that would remotely fit in this area, not sure where i might have just gotten the wrong seals. So, let's be gentle with this, not that we're gon na reuse it anyway, because it wasn't ceiling. Okay, slide this guy right off yeah! I don't know if i have anything that looks quite like this.

Well, here's that one i had in the kit. As you can see, this is definitely not going to work, and this is the old one. These are the two other seals that i have. Neither one of them is remotely close awesome all right.

So, like you guys were probably thinking, i got the rebuild kit for the smaller master cylinder. No big deal, i'm going to rebuild this one. While we wait for the other parts - and i was told one of these master cylinders was rebuilt not too long ago and go ahead and assume it was the smaller guy, but i'm just going to do it again. That way, we've sealed up both master cylinders.

We know for sure everything's going to function properly, so here is some nasty fluid for you right there. I can definitely tell from the fluid this is the one that wasn't leaking, because i kept on needing to add fluid to the other reservoir. Let's just go ahead and push on this piston a little bit there we go just give it a light, tap it'll pop out. There's that all right here we go.

This is the old seal. This is the new seal. This looks much better, so we definitely have the right parts for the smaller master cylinder, all right. So first things.

First we're going to remove the old seal from the piston slippery little fella here and we'll just do one of these guys. Okay, so we are going to be replacing the seal. I just wanted to show you. This is a pretty cool tool here.

This is specifically made for removing seal, so instead of using a sharp pick that will definitely destroy the seal. You can use one of these. This is mostly helpful when you want to reuse the seal, we're going to replace it, but it's a nice tool. Nonetheless, it kind of slips in there very nicely and removes the seal without destroying it.
We'll clean this up with some brake clean and we're also going to wet sand the cylinder so just a little bit of soapy water, and this is 2 000 grit sandpaper. You want to use a very fine sandpaper. Some emery cloth would work well in this situation, but basically we want to get this to shine, but we don't want to remove any material. So it's going to be really gentle use a lot of water.

It helps to use what looks to be your grandma's pillowcase from 1956 as well. That way you catch all of the dirt and debris, and you can see here. This is just a nice smooth shiny surface, now finish it off with some more brake, clean and right. Now i'm just cleaning up some gunk that i found underneath where that seal used to sit so before we install the new seal, i'm going to clean this up as well.

Now i'm going to cut out a strip of sandpaper and you've seen it here. First, we're using 10 strips on a piece of sandpaper, because i don't have any scissors spray this guy down too okay, then i just cut this down a little more and we're going to wrap it around and just kind of clean up this surface, where the seal Sits basically, we want everything super clean, all right after using the sandpaper. This is what we have. You can see a little bit of pitting right at the top there, but that's not going to make any difference.

We got the vast majority of this area, nice, smooth and clean the rubber seal is going in this groove. We really just need it to seal on the outside. The rubber to the inside of the cylinder is what's important for the brake, fluid not leaking out. So right now, this guy is ready to go okay before we install our new seal, i'm just going to lubricate it and brake fluid, so i'm not going to use any other lubricants or anything in this braking system outside of dot three brake fluid non-synthetic.

That's we're! Gon na be using so this seal is a little difficult to get on. We wan na. Be gentle, definitely don't use a pick anywhere near the new one or you can damage it all right there. We have it our new seal on the piston.

So now we have to clean out the cylinder here, as you can see, there's a lot of dirt and debris. This is stuff that was on the outside and when we took the piston out it kind of crept in. So we want this thing to be spotless before that. Piston goes back in so i'm using the pick here on the outside, but definitely don't use this on the inside and scratch up that cylinder.

You want to be very gentle when you're cleaning, this okay, so without having a hone or anything like that. I think i've gotten this pretty clean. The cylinder is very nice and shiny, there's no dirt or debris, and i've blown this out and sprayed it out with very clean quite a few times. So i think we are ready to go back together.
Okay, so at this point we're just going to go ahead and slide this piston back in just like that. Now there is a little washer here that fits in before our second seal, so make sure this hasn't fallen out and now we're just going to install this guy and make sure that it's seated all the way around and the last seal we have is for the Cap, let's remove this o-ring slide on the new one and then we can install our spring inside of the piston like that, and then this plastic little sleeve right here just fits right into the groove of the seal that you installed. So it kind of holds itself there and then finally, we can install this cap right here, so the rubber seal is going to seal the fluid out. This is not a crush washer or anything that needs to be replaced, and now we're just going to go ahead and tighten this up.

Wasn't that tight to begin with, so i think we're good there. All right, fedex just knocked down the door and we have our rebuild kit now. One of these kits came with some red rubber grease and the other one didn't. So i'm going to go ahead and use some of this grease in here, but if you don't have it, i would just use brake fluid.

I think that works fine, so we'll just put a little bit of this on here and i'm not using a lot of this stuff so we'll work it in and i cleaned up this piston just in the same way. It's looking really nice so we'll go ahead and slide on our seal. There we go i've cleaned up the cylinder as well. You can see a little bit of light scoring, but it is perfectly smooth in there and i ran a little bit of the 2000 grit sandpaper with water as well.

And i think this is about as good of a sealing surface as we're going to get all right, so you guys are professional, rolls-royce master, cylinder, rebuilders, we're just going to slide the piston in like that. Don't forget your washer! This thing is identical. Just slightly bigger and then we'll pop this guy in remove this bad boy, install our new o-ring on the cap and screw side cap into the master cylinder. Of course we have our spring inside of here as well.

That is a piston return spring. So after you push this in and it pushes fluid out to apply the brakes, it'll pop right back out, it's crazy to think that the rolls-royce didn't come out until 40 years after this vice was sold, and this vice is over 100 years old and it was Made right here in chicago okay, next up we're going to bench bleed these master cylinders using a specialty rolls royce tool that i just created and all it is, is a funnel and a red rubber tube. So we're going to connect this tube here. This is where the fluid from the reservoir comes from and then we're simply going to dump some brake fluid in here and, as you can see here, it's already starting to fill up.
So we're going to fill up the master cylinder and if you guys went to college, you know the science behind raising the funnel high up into the air to get the fluid to go down quicker. So that's what i'm doing right now and we've almost gotten all the bubbles out, so we are full and then, if we press the piston in it will shoot out normally when you're doing this, you would connect these two into a loop. So you can bleed this out, but i don't have any fittings for that right now, so we're just going to make a little bit of a mess in the name of saving time later so i'll go kind of slow there we go now we're just going to Go ahead and draw in the fluid from the funnel now, when we go to install this we're going to make a little bit of a mess. It's not going to be absolutely perfect, but this bleeding this prime, if you will of the master cylinder, will save us a little bit of time not dealing with air bubbles.

Now, oddly enough, the rebuild kit does not come with these two copper seal rings and they weren't leaking. So i'm not going to go on a wild, goose hunt or wild goose chase. I don't really know which one it is, but i'm not going to go around. Hunting and wasting time for these when they're not leaking.

I think they're going to be just fine, so you can see here that even with a bench bled master, you got to really tilt it to get fluid out of here. So this is about the wildest angle i'll have this at during the installation. So, even though we don't have caps, we should be good and then i'll just clean it all up once everything's installed okay, so we got to fit this guy in here and, let's see, if i can just muscle it in oh, i got it all right, not Bad, so, even with the master cylinder filled with fluid, we didn't lose any at all. I've already connected that line and that hose also, and now we can go ahead and try and sneak those bolts in alright.

So now we can sneak this guy back in okay and bolt number two. That's the easy one, all right perfect! So before we install the lower master, we have to install this little clip here. That's gon na hold on our linkage. So when we press the pedal, it activates the master cylinder - and this wasn't too bad to remove, but i have a feeling like a lot of things, it's going to be difficult to reinstall.

This is impossible, nothing's, impossible. Okay, there we go. We need an assist from the flat blade screwdriver pushing it in. I think it needs to click it yes, clicks clicks are the best.

Take that rolls royce clip. You are in wait a minute, no you're not have a second, i'm glad. I film all this stuff. This is not in hang on there.

We go glad. I filmed these videos all right. I got to get you guys up close to check on my work and in this case that helped me out so now our c-clip is all the way in and properly secured. Okay, now it's time to install the little guy, the one that wasn't leaking, but we rebuilt anyway, and this one is much easier you're going to have one of these leak on you.
You definitely want it to be this lower one very easy job. I'm going to go ahead and screw in the brake line now before we hard mount it that way. If we need to manipulate it, we can get it at the right angle. So we don't cross thread anything.

So we got the line and hose to the bottom. One installed so we'll go ahead and install these bolts too, and i have not tightened up the top bolts yet either that way. We can slide this guy in it kind of spreads this out. Okay just had to get another specialty rolls royce tool uh.

So this is the official brake linkage holding tool right here and uh what it's doing here. It's pushing this rod into the master cylinder and holding it there. So we can get our clip on so i'll leave a link to this. These are about 400 from rolls-royce and just make sure the gap on them is set properly in order to uh hold the linkage against the frame there.

We go now we'll just slip our boot on, like so, and we're going to remove our special tool. Only the finest rolls royce shops in the world have these guys all right, then we can go ahead and tighten up our nuts and bolts that hold the master cylinder in, and this is a little trick for you. We have the ratcheting wrench on the nut on the inside, there's no room to turn that and on this side, there's no room to put the ratcheting head. That's okay! It'll still accomplish the exact same thing, we're still holding the nut on the other side and we're kind of like using this as the ratcheting end so see, we got the ratcheting wrench over on this side, normal open end on this side.

Another trick for you is, if you can fit it, just get yourself some power tools. There we go. That's what i'm talking about. Okay before i connect the linkage i'm and go ahead and fill this with fluid.

Now you guys know what fluid going into a reservoir. Probably looks like so i'm just gon na i'm blocking you blocking you out: okay, yeah, you're, missing me spill stuff, uh! Let's go ahead and pretend that i'm not getting this all over the exhaust manifold and that i have really good aim yeah. This will smell good. There we go okay, this is the smart way to do it.

Let's see, okay still spilled some okay, all right cool. We did it. No super old single stage paint was harmed in the filling of these master cylinders, horrible job, just absolutely horde, with both reservoirs filled. We are going to bleed the brake, so just like any car, you want to start at the wheel, furthest away from the master, cylinder and brake reservoir, but hang on a second.

Most of them are under the hood. So is that the furthest yeah i'd say this is still the furthest one away. So we're going to start right here and i'm just using my pneumatic bleeder, okay. So i've gotten a lot of fluid out with a pneumatic bleeder, but i just want to be sure.
100, that we don't have any air bubbles and what's nice, is you don't need a guy in the car? You could have a second guy, just simply pushing the brake lever like so so i have peter he's a fine english gentleman right, hello, yes, hello, cheerio and um yeah he's gon na, be my my break. Applicator guy! You are a hundred percent english. No! Yes! Right! Okay, no one else can work on thousand all right, a thousand all right. So right now the bleeder is closed.

So i'm going to open the bleeder. Now i go ahead and push okay and then i'll close it and then he'll go back. So he can't go back until i'm all the way closed, otherwise we're just going to suck air right back in so i'm closed right now, so i'm going to go ahead and open go ahead, all the way down. Okay, it's coming! It's coming and we'll close the important part here is: we don't have any air bubbles.

This is a really good sealing hose right here. A lot of it is just dripping down the bottom of the hose, so you don't necessarily see it on camera, but fluid is definitely moving. Let's do one more good measure open there we go yeah. You guys can probably see that nice, okay, close and we're good here.

Okay, with the brakes bled out, we can reinstall our linkage so we're connecting our foot to the actual brakes. Now and let's see here there we go, and then we just have to do that again on the bottom like so, and we'll tighten this up too nuts on the back, we'll tighten these up. We're almost done just tighten these guys up. Okay.

Next up we have the e-brake or parking brake if you will, and that just requires this guy, this guy and a cotter pin, and then i will bend this with my bare hands there. We go all right next up. We got to get this spring, so it just goes there and right there all right there you have it. The master cylinders are installed, the brakes are bled.

Everything is looking good all right. Let's see how this brake pedal feels this thing. Fires up real easy runs. Great, oh yeah, this is so nice now it actually has a little bit of resistance, so normally i'd take a car off for a test drive after fixing the brakes, but it is snowy and salty outside i had to drive my 335i for just two days in This weather and just look at it and the rolls royce, is from the south from what i understand.

It's lived in the south, its entire life, it's probably never seen snow or salt or anything. It looks pretty nice underneath there uh. So i don't want to start introducing it to this mess anytime soon and yes, there are many gallons of water. On top of my 335i and my 540i, that will be explained in a video in about two days.

Three days. Don't worry, it'll all make sense soon and yes, these cars are all lined up for a bath all right now that the rolls-royce has brakes it's time to tackle the interior, i'm so excited for this. We have the leather guy coming to pick up these seats in a little bit, so i need to have these out for him and i'm excited to take a look at the true condition of the carpet under the seats as well, because these original carpets are like Five thousand dollars and although they're kind of dirty, i think we can salvage these. Let me put it this way: i'm going to do whatever it takes to salvage these because i'm not buying new ones.
I don't think it's necessary. I mean they're intact, they're, just dirty. So anyway, let's figure out how we get 61 rolls-royce seats out all right, so we're going to attack the rears first. I believe these are going to be the most difficult okay and let's get this expensive carpeting out of here.

First, it seems to just snap into place: look at that. That's nice, i'm kind of excited to see what we find underneath here. So far. It's just a lot of nice, padding, not sure if this is factory or not, but there's a couple layers seems pretty comfortable.

This seems a little newer, though too i don't know someone might have added that, and then this has, as you guys have noticed, it has a stereo out of like a 2000 ford, mustang or any ford product, a windstar whatever from the 90s and early 2000s. So they do have some speaker wire going through to the back that radio doesn't even work though, and then this door does not open it's the only door that doesn't open. Unfortunately, i think we got to figure this out, probably sooner than later, it's going to make this very difficult to do all right hang on. I think this might actually just push up.

Oh that'd be beautiful. I don't have to mess with the carpet right now. Yes, rolls royce you're the best this is so nice. It's like a newer car where the seats just pop up.

I just assumed this was gon na get held in you know by like 14 stainless steel screws or something fancy. But okay, there you go pretty easy and so some people commented in the videos that they used to use horsehair for the cushion on these seats. Now i don't know i don't know about that, but there are a lot of springs. I'll.

Tell you that much look at these springs in here. This is as comfortable as it seems guys you just kind of sink in it's pretty cool all right. So, let's see what are we going to discover here? Yes, money. This is not rolls royce money, though 50 cents expecting to find like loose hundreds from whoever was rolling around back here being chauffeured around no good look, we even have little wire clippings from when they did the stereo, ah, all right.

Turning a profit already here, all right, so i'm hoping that this follows the same theme as the bottom: okay, okay, i think it does. I'm secretly looking out for a jar of grey poupon, there's got to be grey poupon back here. If you have rolls royce like this and you're, not eating sandwiches with gray poupon on it, there's something seriously wrong with you. It was literally the first thing me and my kids did when this showed up at my house in chicago.
Is i pulled out the little trays here for them and uh we had a sandwich was great poupon. They love the commercials, and this is now called the grey poupon mobile. According to my little kids, all right, so i got ta, get all the junk out of the trunk. I got my first interior battle wound here got cut.

Hopefully this car is clean. I don't know if i showed you this in the reveal video, but this car came with what i believe to be the hat of whoever bought this thing new. I don't know, but it's mine now and once this thing's all fixed up, i'm driving it with this hat. It might be the only way i drive this car all right, so i got ta remove our six disc cd changer.

It doesn't work by the way. I kind of want this to work, though i want to rock some cds in the rolls. You know what i didn't check to see what cds are in this thing. Oh, no, i just killed power too, and although it never worked to begin with, we got to figure this out.

We got to get these cds out, but first things first back seat. I think there are fasteners from the back that are holding the top of that back seat in and we're gon na find out is this: a factory rose partition, it's just made of cardboard. Oh. What is this weird wait? What is going on in here, there's like a knob in here in this big box and obviously they cut a hole in this for a reason, so you can access it.

Oh, this is the the air conditioning system. It's got yeah, it's got big vents coming up, but uh. But what do you control back here? What what do you need to pop the trunk to control? I have no clue all right: 50 cents in an old rag and a rubber band. I mean i'm striking out here guys, i'm striking out this guy needs to be reconnected, so we'll do that, while we're in here but uh yeah rear ac, this one might be a little harder to do.

Okay, so i believe that this screw is holding the rear seat in and there's another on the other side that i've already taken out. Hopefully this is it, and unfortunately, this kind of came apart. It's already been duct taped a few times, so you can see the aftermarket speakers. Mb quartz really know much about speakers are those any good sounds good.

I'm a rolls-royce expert here, people rolls-royce expert. Look at that nice! It's coming apart, a lot easier than i thought. I'm not gon na lie all right, so in case you guys are working on your own silver cloud. 2 at home.

It's just two bolts on the top. That's it, and this is weird look at the color here. This is very odd for some reason that doesn't seem period correct to me, but i could be wrong and this is wood god. This is real wood, so cool, okay, all right still haven't found any gold or money, which is a little disappointing um.
But i have a feeling i know how these little side pieces come out. There's probably a couple more bolts in the trunk that are painting to get to so we'll uh we'll see what we got in the trunk again, all right. Okay, there we go. That's our screw right there.

Oh, there might be more than one yeah there. We go okay, so with the two out yep, this guy pulls right out nice and easy sweet and there's got ta, be another one somewhere, maybe coming from the wheel. Well, to get this out too okay, so i got the two out for this one as well: okay, there's that that one had three of them, one, two three holding it in yeah: that's it and then wow, i'm hoping this! Is it a couple phillips here on this bracket? Maybe holding this guy in that'd be great, but i have a sneaky suspicion. There might be some more fasteners on this side, which is kind of going to be tough to get to all right, so this side's only got one, don't think.

There's any way this is it that'd, be awesome, but no there's something else holding this guy in. Oh look at that. There is another flathead right here and there is a dead spider right next to it, hey buddy! How old are you? Oh i'm, sorry, oh, this is horrible. This is horrible.

Okay, yeah are you from? Are you from england? You know the guys that did the ford windstar stereo had this out, so it's being held in right here, there's a straight-up nail here going into wood. I think that's just all the leather in, but it would be hilarious if this thing was nailed in there. It is right there. Oh that's my finger.

There are nuts right there that are holding this in we get to without removing the wheel, which is great. I got that one out. Oh, this guy is almost out wow. So far, we've taken five fasteners off to try and get this out and it's still not coming.

This is crazy. Oh here hold on a second okay. There we go all right, there's some more wires for the stereo there. You go nice get that out.

This is what they use to reduce noise road noise. There's a lot of this padding all over the place and it's glued in here, and it's still in really good shape. It's all over the place there, you can kind of see behind the glue. There came undone in this area and i see a little piece of styrofoam there.

Oh there's a big piece of styrofoam right under here. We'll leave that alone. All right, i'm going to try this side, it's welded on the bottom, just a nut! That's welded! Oh this one just just turns the other one. We can't turn at all and this one is barely tight yeah.

It's at a weird angle too, with this seat. Here all right, luckily, i have a super long flat head seems like this was developed in conjunction with rolls royce, to remove these seat screws. These screwdrivers don't even like fit in here. Really, i don't know if they're too fat or this thing's too narrow there we go and yeah.
That's literally all it is there's four of these that hold this gigantic seat in so weird, oh man there's a little nerve wracking. We don't want this to break because the other end is welded on the bottom. So it's not just like a nut. We can easily replace you could do it peter.

I have faith if you guys don't recognize peter. He is who connected me with kamar in the lexus giveaway and we've become friends, working on cars together and he's helping me today and hopefully not breaking the bolt on my 61 rolls royce it's getting harder. It's getting harder now shoot! Look at how easy these are. Look at that these just slide right out no tools required, so we've got some penetrating oil on there and he's just working it back and forth.

That tool is pretty nice, isn't it this really allows you to get some good leverage. Oh there it is yeah, nice time and penetrating well, that's all. We needed good job dude. Yes, yes, all right cool! Now, let's uh, let's hold this down and we'll whoa it's right.

It springs right forward with that lever and we just have a couple more back here. A little quarter drive ratchet with a flathead bit coming right out. I've got the same deal going on over here, and these little sonic ratchets are a lifesaver. Let me tell you all right, so we have all four bolts out and i think that's it i mean we know, there's there's no electrical connectors or anything.

We just got to somehow figure out how this is going to exit here, or do we do it in the rear? I don't know rolls royce front seat coming out. This thing is heavy man, okay, okay out it's out, we did, it carpet, looks really nice. Doesn't it yeah? Oh, what's this an old receipt, oh no way get out of here. What is this? This is one of those, oh yeah machines, yeah.

This is an old credit card machine, so i guess it can't be 66. No, it's weird. It says. 6.

11. 66, but isn't this one of those old credit card things? It's got, i don't know clifford b snyder, that's exactly what your name has to be. When you drive a car like this and it's for description. It says boron extra, duron, pre-max three months.

I don't know what this is guys. Thanks come again, thanks, come back again, soho store all right. We got ta, do some research. What is this? What is this? What else is in here? So here's what the receipt looks like kind of cool um, i'm 37 years old - and i don't know what year this is from.

So, if you're gon na comment that alex you don't know what soho is or all these other products on here. Please list your age down below. Okay, i'm just telling you my real life experience is, i don't have the answers to what any of this means in my own brain and so with that. I hope you guys will all join me for another installment of must know diy how to rolls royce videos.

Some more are coming very soon. So if you haven't already give this video a big thumbs up share the video subscribe, if you haven't already and most importantly, have an excellent day i'll catch all of you in the next video you.

By Alex

16 thoughts on “Rebuilding 62-year-old rolls-royce brake master cylinders what i found underneath the seats!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ty hogan says:

    The Standard Oil Company ….. I am sure you have heard the name Rockfeller it was the first multinational corporation it was broken up into a bunch of companies in the early 1900s the receipt you have is the Standard Oil of Ohio

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Perry Elyod says:

    I was hoping for you to remove any CD's in that changer to see what the previous owners of 1962 Rolls Royce's would listen to – Perhaps some N.W.A.?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Glenn Russell says:

    Alex – please wear gloves when working with any nasty fluids/lubricants as they are famously carcinogenic and hazardous as they can be absorbed into your bloodstream, particularly used fluids. It's not worth getting sick over.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rustler08 says:

    If you're going to sand that cylindrical piston barrel, sand perpendicular to the length/height of the barrel. If you do it up and down, you can create grooves that run the length rather than the circumference.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cameron Cundy says:

    Awesome video Alex!!! Love the rolls content can’t wait to see you with the old English cap going for the first drive!! And always keep the videos coming!! You’re my hero

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars uncleheide says:

    I worked at a Shell station out on Butterfield Rd in Glen Ellyn back in ‘73 & ‘74, and that is what we used for charge cards. Standard process at the time!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Keith Blackwell says:

    SOHIO was Standard Oil of Ohio. Look it up on Wikipedia – kind of interesting. I am 72 and remember gas tickets that looked just like that back In the 60's. Cool!! I also remember air conditioning condensers in the rear. Cadillac used them from 1952 which was the first year Cadillac had factory air through 1956 and then went to front vents in 1957. Of course limos had and still have rear a/c. Great channel, Alex. Always like the content.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tom Witherspoon says:

    I look forward to your videos every week! I am no mechanic, but I was wondering if that boot on the bottom brake master cylinder was fully on? Maybe it was the angle that made it look that way. It may not matter because of the inner seals and snap ring, but I thought I would mention it just in case. Thanks for all your excellent content!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Graham Beek says:

    Great call on the Earl Grey tea and crumpets (with strawberry jam please). Though I’m quite partial to a muffin as well. English muffin, of course!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars radio-pirol says:

    If the rubber is not rock hard and not cracked or scuffed, just put it in a pot of water and boil it for some minutes.
    Sometimes this is enough to reuse the seals.

    For assambling break cylinders use ATE break cylinder assembly paste! "Bremszylinder-Paste" in German. Blue tube, nothing else!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris Jeffery says:

    Hi, 33 in the UK, we were still using credit card imprinter and carbon paper manual card sliders in my first job in 2004, later when the law went all digital a lot of stores went cash only because they couldn't afford the payment processing fees so a provided a bunch of receipts like that one (though in my case we mostly used carbon paper)

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars R Smith says:

    All Right, from what I can read Receipt is from a Sohio Gas station for 15.6 gal of gas at 36.9 cents something per gal. so the 5 dollar fill up and they washed your windows and filled your tires thank you much. oh and i am 71. god i miss those prices. And I have some ot those rolls special tools from my mercedes I would sell your for only 100 per unit.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel Warnock says:

    You don't know what crumpets are? It is but a simple google search. A crumpet is a small griddle bread made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour, and yeast, eaten in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. Best to be eaten hot with melted butter and/or honey or syrup.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Digital Dan says:

    Who knew that airborne trichloroethane was carcinogenic?
    77 years old.
    Suggest nice socket head bolts to replace the flat heads.
    Sohio is Standard Oil of Ohio (you missed the I part.) Credit cards were a thing in 1966. ATMs, more's the pity, were not.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars A Barratt says:

    Crumpets are a delicious bready comestible that should be toasted, and spread with a lot of butter (at least), acceptable additions are jam, marmalade, Marmite, or basically anything you like! Best served piping hot, with a cuppa, in front of a warm fire/TV on a chilly winter's day.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars LegitStreetCars says:

    If money was no object what would you daily drive? I'd go with the latest Lamborghini just to put tons of miles on it to see how much money it would take to keep going over 100,000 miles.

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